“Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” ~ Steven Pressfield “To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”Continue reading “‘Tis the Season 2”
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‘Tis the Season
“Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of theContinue reading “‘Tis the Season”
Before You Buy Those Christmas Gifts
“Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.” ~ Andrew Weil “I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don’t getContinue reading “Before You Buy Those Christmas Gifts”
Help Your Favorite Author
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” ~ Benjamin Franklin “Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens well.” ~ Mark Haddon “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~ Ray Bradbury My husband’s parents are visiting, soContinue reading “Help Your Favorite Author”
It’s Here!
“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.” ~ J. K. Rowling “Finishing booksContinue reading “It’s Here!”
Sage Woman Chronicles 